CONTENTS

Chance

Chance: A Conversation

Never

The Gift

French Poems

La Cathédrale Notre Dame

Remembering Jean Moulin

After Roissy

The Trees

China Poems

Poem Beginning With a Line by Li Po

At the Marco Polo Hotel

Tapping

Instincts

Nature and the Human

Words Without Limits

No-one Ever Found You

The Call

The Basis of All Knowledge

Washing the Dishes

Nights of Average Nerves

On Not Flying

An Act of Defiance

On the Verge

Tinnitus

Constancy

The Edge of Air

How Close to Calligraphy

The Day Dorothy Porter Died

Ahead of Us

That Other Country

That Other Country

Eventually

After Chemo

Drinking

Your Shadow

Who or Why or How or What

On the Eve

Belief

So Much Courage

Renewal

Plato’s Error

Six Years

Parallels and Antitheses

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Oranges

Ashes and Hair

64a Princedale Rd

Narvik Twice

Gelati alla Spiaggia

Grief

Insistence

Widower

Birthday Present

Fascination

Fascination